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Robert Benton
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Feast Of Love
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Toby Hemingway, Selma Blair, Morgan Freeman
Director: Robert Benton
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Love takes on many forms in an adaptation of Charles Baxter's celebrated novel. Starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, this drama shows various romances blooming--and dying--in a small town.
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The Human Stain
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
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Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a light-skinned African-American college professor who has kept his true racial identity secret for ..read more »
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Twilight
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, ..read more »
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Nobody's Fool
(1994)
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »
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Billy Bathgate
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis
Director: Robert Benton
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E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed novel forms the basis of BILLY BATHGATE, which stars Loren Dean as the title character. In the New York of 1935, the naive Bronx-born teenager wangles his way into the gang of his hero, crime boss Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman), as a gofer. Although the boy doesn't know it,..read more »
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Nadine
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Rip Torn
Director: Robert Benton
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When Nadine accidentally comes into possession of property map worth millions, Vernon (Bridges), her financially strapped husband, comes up with a plan to make a killing. Unfortunately so does BufordPope (Rip Torn), an unscrupulous businessman who'll stop at nothing to get the map. So as Vernon's ..read more »
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Kramer vs Kramer
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry
Director: Robert Benton
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Returning home late from work one night, a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife, Joanna, that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of being somebody's wife, she's going off to find herself, leaving Ted to care for their six-year-old son. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to ..read more »
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Bad Company
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis
Director: Robert Benton
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Robert Benton's directorial debut stars Jeff Bridges as young con man Jake Rumsey in this highly original Western. After Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose ..read more »
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Bad Company
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(1972)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Boyd, John Quada
Director: Robert Benton
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Run time: 92 minutes
This tale of friendship and survival set during the days of the 1860's focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts. Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft. Jake is a ..read more »
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A feeble attempt at Film Noir 29 July 2004
...A first-rate cast are lumbered with a third-rate script in Robert Benton's tedious thriller. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a retired ex-cop, who, like all ex-cops in the mov...
Here, rabbit, here 29 April 2005
A bittersweet romantic drama 18 January 2008
